Latin: Our Living Heritage has been prepared to meet the needs of beginning classes in all types of schools. The first six lessons are specifically designed to enable the student to learn to read or write a simple Latin sentence as soon as possible. The more frequently used cases are presented first with each case presented in its most general aspect.
The principle of frequency of use has guided the presentation of forms throughout the text. As forms are presented they are used meaningfully. For example, the presentation of the future and future perfect tenses is deferred because they are the least frequently used tenses. However, when these tenses are given in Lessons 22 and 23, they are considered along with their use in sī, nisi, and cum clauses. The organization of the book provides for a flexibility of course to match individual differences of curricula and students. Of the 53 lessons, the first 43 contain all the material commonly considered adequate for a course in Latin which begins at the ninth- grade level. If the teacher desires, however, the class may proceed to the end of Lesson 50, thus completing the initial study of indirect discourse and deponent verbs.

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